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...Florida legislature-derived standard for those counts - where the "intent of the voter" is evident - that is not only subjective but more stringent than the all-vote manual counts in Volusia and Broward counties that cut George W. Bush's lead in half. It has appointed the very judge it rebuffed "in part" with Friday's ruling - N. Sanders Sauls - to do the very job he couldn't bring himself to do. (Sauls immediately recused himself...
...most of these counties, there wasn't a recount," he said. "Largely, [we knew] this was gonna be fought in four populated counties--Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Volusia...
...Gore asks for manual recounts in Volusia, Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties...
...Volusia and Palm Beach counties (joined by the Gore team) file suit in Leon County circuit court to extend the 5 p.m. Tuesday deadline for certifying their results. The argument: since state law allows hand counts and since those under way may be completed after the deadline, the state should wait to certify results until the hand counts...
...whether machine counts or manual counts were better or fairer. If a candidate and a county wanted to count by hand, that was fine - they'd just better get it done in seven days if they wanted to be sure it would be included. The Bush team held up Volusia County, which merely hand-counted and filed to Harris without controversy, as a shining example. It seemed to impress the Justices more than Boies' arguments why the other counties had taken so long to start...